Margarita Simonyan Quotes

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.

We should always remember that Fox News will stick out like a sore thumb no matter what the other news outlets do, and that has to be recognized as an issue.

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.